Yeah James.......me too. Been there done that. But you know it's alway stated that Gettysburg was the "high water mark" for the Confederacy. The whippings dealt out on those three days by both sides were huge. But Lee's army left the field and the state as a matter of fact with little resistance until they encountered the rain swollen Potomac River. And they still made it acroos with little more than some skirmishing from the Federal Army. If Meade won the field at Gettysburg he must have really liked "that ground" because he didn't move for a week. And other than the Mine Run actions in Virginia there was not another Federal offensive launched until the spring of 1864. Okay, that would include Spotsylvania, The Wilderness, and Cold Harbor. When the two armies broke camp in the spring of '64 on opposite sides of the Rapidan River, Meade/Grant had more head of cattle than Lee had effective fighting men. Yet the fighting went on and the WINNING continued for the South. Guess that goes back to my post way up earlier in this thread. I'll shut up what I was gonna continue to write so Jim won't spank me.

Keith